Do you use votes on Bugzilla tickets to help you make decisions?

[Felix Ernst]

If we were to remove them, users would have no way to show that they care about a bug aside from adding annoying "Please fix this, it is important to me"-comments. So in that sense it serves a similar purpose as the duplicates count. Duplicates count is very imprecise though because there will be more duplicates for bugs that are difficult to search for. Votes aren't a great metric either but it is sometimes interesting tp me to see when many people felt compelled to vote on a bug.

So I do look at them as an additional metric to see how many people are negatively impacted by a bug. I don't feel that strongly about them overall though.

Felix

On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 3:53 PM Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> wrote:
>
> Hello folks!
>
> I often find myself explaining to users that votes on Bugzilla tickets
> are generally meaningless and not used by most developers to help
> prioritize work. After I explain this, they generally express surprise,
> as it's not obvious.
>
> I find myself wondering whether it would make sense to disable the
> voting feature by default to avoid giving our users this false impression.
>
> So if you *do* take user votes into consideration when determining what
> tickets to prioritize, I'd like to hear from you!
>
>
> Nate